Global Warming? Cap and Trade?

As many of you might recall, I am something of a global warming/climate change skeptic. While I agree that the climate does change, and I agree that human behavior has some effects on climate, I do not accept the sometimes claimed "consensus" that we are experiencing problematical global warming (hence the change in terminology to the more generic and less restrictive "climate change") or that the major cause of the change is human activity. This is simply too complex for these simplistic approaches, and there is legitimate scientific evidence that there are other, many times naturally-occurring, causes for the reported climate changes.

Today, I ran across the following: A study challenging the "consensus" and an estimate of how much money we have spent so far on this issue. And we face the potential of even more costs through the costs of the Cap and Trade legislation passed by the House and still on the legislative agenda.

Complex issues deserve careful, serious, deliberate thought; let's be sure we know the problem before we try to fix it in an expensive manner.

Update: And India, after Secretary of State Clinton apologized for America's contribution to global warming, shows it is not impressed: Financial Times says India Widens Climate Rift with West.